I was discussing with a friend today the decision by Stephenie Meyer to reissue Twilight<\/i> with the genders reversed. Rather than a story about a teenage girl being romanced by a 100 year old male vampire, it will be a story about a teenage boy being romanced by a 100 year old female vampire.<\/p>\n
My first thought was “Gee, if they reverse the genders in Harry Potter<\/i>, wouldn’t Dumbledore be a lesbian?”<\/p>\n
But then I continued the chain of thought. What if J.K. Rowling were to issue a gender reversed Harry Potter<\/i>? It would be a story of a teenage girl, born to greatness but at first unaware of her true potential, who is looked over by a kindly magical female guardian, while an evil older woman — the young girl’s nemesis — tries to destroy her and take her power.<\/p>\n
And that’s when I realized that Harry Potter<\/i> does not need to be gender reversed. It’s already a gender reversed Walt Disney<\/i> princess movie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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